Wire art and phone booths

Wire art and phone booths are slowly disappearing.

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I’m Joseph Dewey, and I love the phone booths and wire art in Bangkok. And this site is a tribute to both of those things. I also love Bangkok buses and trains, and some of my most beautiful pictures are of buses and trains.

I love 360 photos, and here’s one I took of the Bangkok Seashell Museum.

But now I have a Pixel 2, and it doesn’t take good 360 photos. Well, when it works, they’re beautiful, but it only works about 10% of the time. So, after I upgraded from a Pixel to a Pixel 2, then I stopped taking a lot of 360 pictures.

Here it is…me taking a photo of the sign by the bridge over the river Kwai. The spelling on this sign is awesome, since platform said by a Thai person really does sound like blatform, and the message is interesting, “We made this public park that’s just an active, running, in-service railroad track over a … More The sign by the bridge over the river Kwai

There’s lots of wire art in Bangkok, but it’s hard to find actual wire artists. They’re probably working daily, but I’m not really a morning person, so I don’t see them very much. This guy was pulling the wires all by himself. Usually they have about three people to help, but he was doing it … More Wire artist

Wire art at its finest. I love the city of Bangkok. The streets are excellent, the phone booths are classic, and the cabling looms above us like a gently cloudy day. And I always appreciate the graffiti on the phone booths. There’s always some, but it’s never too much. #localguides